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Playing with DeepZoom |
| by Neil Middleton 3:34 pm Friday, 24 October 2008. |
One of the more interesting parts of the Silverlight 2 release is the DeepZoom capability as demonstrated a while back by the Hard Rock Cafe. After the Silverlight 2 final came out last week I decided I would sit down and play with the DeepZoom composer, an application provided by Microsoft for composing DeepZoom imagery.
This initial demonstration that I have done isn’t anything crazy-complicated, but merely a simple composition of flat images at a variety of resolutions and sizes. To give you an idea of the zoom capabilities of the product take a good look at Niklas’s eyes, or zoom down into the map.
This image contains all the Monochrome website content as of today.
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Microsoft PDC kicks off on Monday |
| by John Beynon 10:09 am Thursday, 23 October 2008. |
No-one from Monochrome is attending Microsoft PDC this year which is starting on Monday in Los Angeles but that doesn’t mean we’re not waiting with much anticipation to see what’s going to be announced.
Microsoft have already shipped Silverlight 2 earlier this month, they’ve released a wealth of information on Windows 7 - leaving the stage clear for Microsoft to announce where they are going with ‘Cloud computing’ and the much talked about Cloud OS – aka Windows Strata that Steve Ballmer recently said would make its debut before the end of the month.
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Microsoft UK Developer Day 7 |
| by John Beynon 9:07 am . |
The registration page for Microsoft UK’s Developer Day to take place on 22nd November went live yesterday (22 October) and already it’s full and a waiting list started.
It’s a free event arranged by Microsoft UK at their UK head quarters in Reading – the sessions are all strictly none Microsoft staff, preferring to be real .NET developers from the community. It even takes place on a Saturday so no need to take a day off work to attend.
The session line up is impressive so here’s hoping we can get some guys to attend!
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ColdFusion ranked amongst favourite App Servers |
| by John Beynon 5:36 pm Wednesday, 22 October 2008. |
A recent survey by Evans Data of 700 developers worldwide has ranked ColdFusion amongst one of the best Application Servers. 21 Characteristics of application servers were rated by participants that they had personally used - ranging from performance through to value to cost ratio. So this survey reflects the true opinions and perceptions of the real users of the products!
The survey pitted ColdFusion against the likes of IBM Webshere, Jboss and Windows Server 2003 (????) with ColdFusion coming out a very respectable 4th behind WebSphere, Apache Geronimo and Windows Server, just ahead of JBoss by a narrow margin. Of the 21 characteristics ColdFusion scalability, support, security features and performance received the highest ratings.
It’s a free report and makes and interesting read so it’s worth taking a read and certainly dispels the ‘ColdFusion is dead’ stories that occasionally appear.
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UKCFUG’s back in town! |
| by Neil Middleton 11:13 am . |
After an extended summer break the UKCFUG is proud to announce that it’s back and better than ever. Over the next few months we promise to bring you a new format, longer meetings, more speakers and topics and a whole host of other top secret stuff. We’ll let you know more over the coming months as details are finalised.
So, about the next meeting…
The return UKCFUG session will be held at Design UK on November the 6th at 7pm. The agenda is as follows:
7.15 - 8.15 : Live-docs
8.15 - 8.30 : Break
8.30 - 9.30 : Structuring your development team and getting the work done presented by Neil Middleton
9.30 - Late : Pub
Live-Docs
Gardners question time for techies. We will be recording (live!) the inaugural session of the new live-docs podcast, starring your CFUG managers Niklas Richardson and Neil Middleton of Monochrome, Mark Drew of CFEclipse/Reactor fame and Big Mad Kev McCabe from Scotch on the Rocks.
This session is a free form question / answer session about anything to do general web development, ColdFusion, or the Adobe stack in general. Note that questions must be taken prior to the event so please submit them to neil [at] monochrome [dot] co [dot] uk or hand them to us on the night.
Structuring your development team and getting the work done
Learn how to organize and manage projects to work more effectively as a team and increase overall efficiency. This session will describe who you need on your web development team and show you ways to get the most out of them. Learn how agile processes can benefit both your team and your bottom line.
Where:
Design UK, 10 Warwick Street, London, W1B 5LZ
When:
November 6th 2008 7pm - 9.30pm
Directions:
Nearest Tube - Piccadilly Circus
See http://www.ukcfug.org for more information.
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